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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARY A. MGMASTER, OF ANTIOOH, OALIFORNIA.

FRUIT-DRIER ATTACHMENT FOR STOVES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 247,387, dated September 20, 1881.

Application filed May 7, 1881. (No model.)

of the device in perspective, showing it open.

Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the wheels, to Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the device. Fig. 4 is a transverse section of the two wheels, showing their relation.

This invention relates to driers for fruit, &c.

The invention consists in the construction hereinafter described.

In the drawings hereto annexed, A is an angular box, having top B, bottom 0, sides D D, back E, and hinged front F. The lower part of the sides is narrowed, forming rabbets d, having the guideways g g, in which are extension-pieces G G. The height of the front is the same as that of the broad portion of sides D D, and said front has at its bottom edge an upturned lip,f, on which catch the lips h of detachable pieces H. On one side is a door, I, opening to the inside of the box. The inside is divided into two compartments, K and L, by the inverted Tframe M,having branches m, attached to the sides of the box and body m, attached to the top. At the lower part of compartment K is hung a wheel, N, whose journals 1?. n fit in the bearings m and 0, both being slotted to allow of ready removal, the outer one, 0, being closed by a slide, a. This wheel N consists of a huh, I), having spokes 0 running therefrom and turned at right angles at c, forming arms I), there being attached to these arms at the angles and at their ends the annuli f, said annuli being connected at intervals by the right-angled bars f, forming recesses f and having extending peripherically between their bases f 3 the gauze a.

N are segments of gauze, of a length to fit between the bars f, being held in recesses f at one end, and by latches f at the other, said latches being separate from the wheel, or the spokes may be turned over at the barsf to form the same.

P is another wheel, of similar construction to wheel N, small enough to slip into the latter, both being held by the shaft W.

In the upper part of compartment K are shelves It, held upon cleats r. The other compartment, L, contains two L-shaped hangers, S, having stems land branches l, and arranged upon the said hangers and within the sides of the box are the cleats t, upon which rest the shelves T, such shelves and those in the other compartment being made of gauze.

V is a hole in the top for ventilation, and W another for the stove-pipe.

X is an opening in the bottom, covered by a plate, Y, to be used when the device is placed on top of the stove.

The plate A is to be placed at the bottom, inside the stove-pipe.

In use the wheels and shelves are filled with fruit, being placed between the two gauzes in the wheels and on the gauze shelves, and these are put in place. The door and the opening in the bottom are closed, and the device is placed on the stove with the pipe coming up between the hangers S and through hole W, the slide \V is put in place, and the hinged front]? closed. To make all tight the pieces G and H are slid on and together. By rotating the wheels the different portions are brought around to the under side.

To use the device as a heater or warmer, it is taken from the pipe, the cover Y taken from opening X, all the rest made tight, and the device placed on top the stove.

What I claim is- A drying-wheel having a gauze periphery and gauze segments for covering the same, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

MARY AMELIA MCMASTER.

Witnesses:

OLIVER WOLOOTT, ELLA THOMPSON. 

